Am 12.04.2013 18:26, schrieb Lenga, Yair: > Chet, > > Sorry again for pulling the wrong Bash 4 doc. > > Based on the input, I'm assuming that the portable way (bash 3, bash 4 and > POSIX) to retrieve $? When running under "-e" is to use the PIPEr > CMD_STAT=0 ; GET_MAIN_DATA || CMD_STAT=$? That isn't a pipe its a logical or, it means if the first command returns non 0 execute the next command. as the assignment will not fail it avoids the problem. as such you could also do
GET_MAIN_DATA || GET_BACKUP_DATA or if ! GET_MAIN_DATA ; then GET_BACKUP_DATA fi
